Brothers In Arms (iPhone / iPod Touch) Gameplay Video Mini-Review

Brothers in Arms was released on the app store on November 23rd, 2008. Since then it has gotten a price-drop from $9.99 to now $5.99. Keep that in mind.

Anyways graphically it looks pretty great! Like an upgraded PS1 game, however when I looked it up, this was an N-Gage game originally. So I'm sure Gameloft is happy about the iPhone and app store. There are weird looking things of course, the tank rocks back and forth when you hit it with a rocket or grenade. When you use the rocket launcher, if you aim high up and shoot, you won't get to see the destruction, because you'll have to reload. The high points of the graphics though is the destructable environments, and the overall action on the screen at once is awesome! The framerate rarely drops too.

The sound is fantastic for a iPod Touch game! You hear people dying, shooting is intense and overall it's just great. The music's well done and mixes in great with gameplay. The one negative is the vehicle noises are a bit on the weak side.

The gameplay is great and will differ on your opinion of the controls. There's I believe there's 3 control schemes, you can have 2 on-screen analog sticks, which I suggest you to stay away from. I forget some but the default one's the best, 1 stick for movement, drag thumb to move crosshair and a shoot button. The grenade button, the action specific button and the weapon/pause screen button never change. Having said all of this, the controls are great after you've gotten used to them. The negative I can give to the controls is the "analog" stick isn't really analog, you can only control your character in 8 degrees of direction (as opposed to 360).

This is very much a Call of Duty type game from a third person perspective, the reason I said this is because you know what to expect from what the game is. You shoot nazis in this WWII shooter, surprise! The aiming is a little forgiving, you don't always have to be perfectly aiming at them to nail them. There's a bit of an auto-aim to it as well. You throw grenades by tilting your device to aim it's trajectory. Tanks are pretty easy to destroy as long as you have grenades, you just need to run up to them and throw a 'nade in there.

The absolute worst part of this game is the vehicles. The jeeps control with an on-screen steering wheel, and reverse and forward button. It just doesn't work good, and the truck looks weird while moving, it's like bouncing around. The tanks control like you walk, which makes it weird because, you only have 8 directions to go in. So in the end, I just go forward and control with the aiming.

So overall this game was well worth it when I bought it at $9.99, so if you like shooters, pick this one up!

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[rasuk]

this graphic is the same standard as the psp

[thaibokser79]

worth to buy it?

[Inhodouglas]

eu assisto assisto e nunca concigo colocar no meu ipod,,,

e foda velho..

[ChrisMathers3501]

@Sudstah But if the iphone doesn't have the capacity of larger more powerful systems, then how can ANY game made for it be innovative? Personally, I'd say the game itself looks worth a buy, but why would anybody buy an iphone just to play one game? Y'see, THIS is what I really hate about the iphone. It has its own videogames that should be available across the board on ALL handhelds. DS, PSP, whatever, just not solely confined to an overpriced MP3 player with bells and whistles out the ass.

[0011philboy]

@rasuk yeah

[michael1234100]

@AlexVamp2 but still.... its pretty badass.... =D

[AlexVamp2]

Nintendo ds graphics and i think is the same game for DS

[AlexVamp2]

Nintendo DS graphics

[lemonbandaid]

@thaibokser79 ur choice

[0churchill0]

@rasuk

 only a little bit better

[disturbvsslipknot]

if u have a jail broken ipod like me just add a source and you can get all games for free message me if u want the name of the source and the app im talking about is basicly the same as the app store with everygame in the app store but its free and faster download

[Sudstah]

@thaibokser79 depends on the type of person you are, personally I wouldn't buy any iphone game that is a FPS, because its a device meant for innovative games, not box standard shooters built on a platform of systems far larger and far more powerful.